Bloated Corpse
Jun. 6th, 2006 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothI didn't actually name the character 'bloated corpse', I named it 'siren of the deep'. Its costume is of a bloated corpse, though, with eyes and mouth sewed shut. I was going to put up a screenshot of it, but apparently issue 7 came out this morning.
Anyway, last night I decided to play city of villains instead of heroes, and was immediately struck by the horrid framerate. "Oh, right," I said to myself, remembering, "I have to turn all the graphics settings down to run villains." After that it was playable.
I did a little with Ice Weasel (my stalker), going up against freaks mostly. Freaks kind of suck for stalkers -- they heal and rez themselves, leaving the stalker with a non-dead enemy to scrap after all his stalky stuff is expended. This can be fixed by running away and waiting for it to recharge, though. Unless you die because the tank stood up after your mez resistance expired, stunned you, then killed you in two hits.
I put together a team of people two levels lower than me... initially I invited two of them and lk'd one up (he was 3 below) until he made 21 and I couldn't do that anymore. Then I invited a third... who insisted that I invite their 'friend' as well. It turned out that their 'friend' was their other character, and they were dual-boxing. They never admitted this, but it was PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that the second character was on follow.
23 21 21 21 21 is a challenging team to not die in, and we didn't manage it in the slightest. It was awful.
After that, I decided I wanted to give dominators another chance, so to be as different as possible from the plant/thorn dominator I hated, I went mind/ice. The aforementioned bloated corpse. Only got up to level 6, and I already screwed up the build by taking ice sword (an unremarkable and slow-animating melee attack) instead of ice sword circle... but mind control is pretty powerful so far -- at level 6 I have three different 'take one enemy out of the fight' powers (sleep, hold, and confuse).
So, let's hope I7 finished patching by the time I get home. It should, it said it had about two hours of downloading to do after applying the pre-downloaded majorpatch file.
Anyway, last night I decided to play city of villains instead of heroes, and was immediately struck by the horrid framerate. "Oh, right," I said to myself, remembering, "I have to turn all the graphics settings down to run villains." After that it was playable.
I did a little with Ice Weasel (my stalker), going up against freaks mostly. Freaks kind of suck for stalkers -- they heal and rez themselves, leaving the stalker with a non-dead enemy to scrap after all his stalky stuff is expended. This can be fixed by running away and waiting for it to recharge, though. Unless you die because the tank stood up after your mez resistance expired, stunned you, then killed you in two hits.
I put together a team of people two levels lower than me... initially I invited two of them and lk'd one up (he was 3 below) until he made 21 and I couldn't do that anymore. Then I invited a third... who insisted that I invite their 'friend' as well. It turned out that their 'friend' was their other character, and they were dual-boxing. They never admitted this, but it was PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that the second character was on follow.
23 21 21 21 21 is a challenging team to not die in, and we didn't manage it in the slightest. It was awful.
After that, I decided I wanted to give dominators another chance, so to be as different as possible from the plant/thorn dominator I hated, I went mind/ice. The aforementioned bloated corpse. Only got up to level 6, and I already screwed up the build by taking ice sword (an unremarkable and slow-animating melee attack) instead of ice sword circle... but mind control is pretty powerful so far -- at level 6 I have three different 'take one enemy out of the fight' powers (sleep, hold, and confuse).
So, let's hope I7 finished patching by the time I get home. It should, it said it had about two hours of downloading to do after applying the pre-downloaded majorpatch file.
